I used Illustrator and Photoshop to create this, mainly because I came across this Aurora tutorial earlier and wanted to try do it. Obviously it kinda failed… but oh well. I hand drew everything and used a lot of little tricks in Illustrator to cut back time making this, which I might show you guys some time down the track. I think I need to work on making the grass more grass-ey….but grass was always something difficult for me. At least I didn’t go the usual shortcut route and use the ‘roughen’ filter in Illustrator right?

Anyhow, there are a few things I aim to do this year on this website, some of which are:

• Update this layout (Cam and I have something pretty cool in the idea factory…we’ve yet to make a start on it though  :o)
• Update this blog once a week with either a new drawing, tutorial, inspiration/idea post, and/or other random fun stuff to be decided soon.
• Make a zine or three to make a new section on the site – I’m nearly finished with my first one! But I bet you all won’t be surprised to see what it is once I’ve scanned it rofl.

Umm…yeah…that’s all I’ve really thought of so far. I’m sure I’ll keep adding to the list as the year goes on. I mean it’s only the end of January after all.

On to more recent news, I came across an unfinished illustration today of a huge ice cream I did last year some time (I know big surprise right?) It was supposed to be for some random competition but I completely forgot about it and didn’t bother finishing or entering it….mainly because the competition was focussed around global warming and I thought my idea might be a bit too sarcastic to submit  SO I cleaned it up a bit today and added a few finishing touches. I have to say I’m a bit rusty at editing colours in Photoshop so that’s why the colours in this are kinda really dodgy. Oh well, I had fun making bokeh light effects anyway (Don’t know what bokeh is!?!? Find out how easy it is to make cool lighting effects in my next post  /shamelessplug).

So without further ado – here is my first drawing for 2012 – what else than giant ice cream.

Everything in this poster was meant to be a satire of “green” products…except I made it kinda cute. I CAN’T HELP IT I can’t do serious.

Aaaand that wraps up my 365 project for 2011!!! First off a big thank you to everyone who’s helped, encouraged and inspired me during this year – I really appreciate it and whilst it’s been a really challenging and tiring project I’m really glad to have made it to 365. Of course I couldn’t have done it without Cam, who not only made me a special postcard generator(!) so all my postcards would be the right size (lol), he also organised, sorted and uploaded ALL my postcards to facebook for me, as well as editing and organising posts on here. Pretty amazing!!

Now that I’ve finished this for the year, I think I’ll take a break from drawing sub par images for a bit and go through a few games I’ve been meaning to play but have put off because of postcards, haha. Then I might come back and redo some postcards I did throughout the year – I know I can do better ones but having ~1 hr a day to do a good postcard isn’t the best for me. I know I also meant to learn how to use that tablet I got but I’m finding it really hard to get used to x.x If anyone has any pointers or links to some handy hints for using tablets to draw in Illustrator that would be much appreciated!!

Other than that, hope you all have a fantastic New Year and an even better 2012 than 2011. Peace 

Cam edit: So proud of my sweetiepie!! 

I may have already done a similar one like this… OH WELL.

A small tribute to R.L. Stine.

You can never have enough.

Guess what song I was listening to?

And a happy new year! 6 more days to 2012… And 6 more days until this project is finished. OMG